oh, and while it's on my mind...

[hyuri]

why does everyone insist on changing alllll of their config files over to XML, despite the fact that a) it takes (much) time to implement the change in the source; b) it's often harder to find a specific config element to change (manually) amongst all the added XML noise; and c) in many cases it vastly increases the size of the config files in question? I mean, looking at some of the files I'm pretty sure that C is often due to bad implementation, but what about the other two? what brought this to mind was the following:

bash-2.05b$ ls -l .xfce/xfce?rc
-rw-r--r--    1 hyuri    users        3734 Aug  1 22:20 .xfce/xfce3rc
-rw-r--r--    1 hyuri    users        7671 Aug  1 22:20 .xfce/xfce4rc

the files are friggin' identical except that one is XML!

Comments

[hyuri.livejournal.com]

ah, an explanation that makes sense! thanks muchly.